Happy Vibes Farm

02/20/2025

Hope everyone had a fantastic week! Our farm produce subscription is almost full, and we only have a few spots remaining. Don't miss out!

Happy Vibes Farm Subscription Membership is open!

Advantage of farm harvest share (traditionally called CSA) includes

🥬Members get produce right after it’s harvested that means food is freshest and stay longer
🥬Members say because of the subscription boxes, they eat healthier
🥬Customize your weekly boxes with veggies, fruits, eggs, flowers, microgreens, and honey.
🥬No charges upfront
🥬Skip any week
🥬Members support local farmer and business. This strengthens the local food systems and sustainability
🥬Members are also helping to reduce the emissions from fossil fuels used to produce, process, and transport food.

Please read through carefully. Don’t miss the member perks. Limited spaces.
https://happyvibesfarm.square.site/subscription

02/16/2025

02/12/2025

Show your love with fresh eggs this Valentine's Day! Order online by Thursday and pick up Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

Order online on our website https://happyvibesfarm.square.site

02/06/2025

Bit concerning, I see folks selling summer seedlings already. Was asked about starting seeds. 🛑

Our frost date if April 15 but its safe to summer veg transplant outside around Mother’s Day.

Right now you can start your spring seedlings indoors and plant them out March 3rd week or early April.

Most of your summer seedlings start indoors 4,6,8 weeks as mentioned on the seed packet… it should say how many weeks before the frost date.

Starting plants too early, they stress and plants look for nutrients. Doesn’t really do any good, instead could die if not given right care.

Our mission always been keeping food close to home so we support our home gardeners.

Our seedlings for plants sale starts at the right time and weeks calculated for our growing zone. They are not big as the box stores, but it’s healthier this way and better acclimated to our weather.

02/04/2025

Happy Vibes Farm Subscription Membership is open!

Advantage of farm harvest share (traditionally called CSA) includes

🥬Members get produce right after it’s harvested that means food is freshest and stay longer
🥬Members say because of the subscription boxes, they eat healthier
🥬Customize your weekly boxes with veggies, fruits, eggs, flowers, microgreens, and honey.
🥬No charges upfront
🥬Skip any week
🥬Members support local farmer and business. This strengthens the local food systems and sustainability
🥬Members are also helping to reduce the emissions from fossil fuels used to produce, process, and transport food.

Please read through carefully. Don’t miss the member perks. Limited spaces available.
https://happyvibesfarm.square.site/subscription

01/27/2025

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Have you ever found a grub while digging in your lawn? It could be a Japanese beetle or European chafer. Evidence of an infestation of white grubs appears as grass begins to turn brown due to root damage. Usually the turf can be rolled back like a rug to reveal grubs. Mole or skunk damage indicates the presence of grubs.

Options for control include good cultural practices (keep grass at 2 inches or higher), monitoring, biological (though there is not good evidence for effective biological control) and chemical control.

Learn more: https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/ENTO/ENTO-237/ENTO-237.html

Consult your local Extension office for information on chemical controls!

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Cultural Practices - Keep lawn cut at 2" or higher to tolerate a lot of insect feeding without showing injury.
Monitoring - Get a shovel, sift through the top 3" of soil, roots, and thatch. Look for creamy-white, C-shaped beetle larvae, with tan to rusty-brown heads and six legs.
Chemical Control - Chemical controls and the timing of application vary with the different species of grubs. As a general rule, apply preventive controls from April to mid-July and curative controls from late July through August.
What does damage look like? Grass begins to turn brown due to root damage. Usually the turf can be rolled back like a rug to reveal grubs. Mole or skunk damage indicates the presence of grubs.

01/26/2025

01/25/2025

Want to become an expert grower. Don’t miss this opportunity! It’s perfect home gardeners and market gardeners.

Please remember if you're coming to the PATH Foundation for the Growers Academy Kickoff this evening you should park behind the building and enter next to the Old Town Athletics gym. The workshop is on the 2nd floor.

01/22/2025

Don’t miss the opportunity to take deep dive and making your dream to reality. This is probably only one or one of very few beginner farmer program offered in Virginia

This is a multi-week course covers all aspects of farming and discuss about all kinds of farm entities.

We took this course in 2022 and it was best thing we did. We learnt so much and connect to other aspiring and experienced farmers and experts.

Do you have a small farm dream? The Northern Piedmont Beginning Farmer Program might be a good way to start. We'll help you make fully informed decisions and show you how to put together your first Whole Farm Plan. On January 30th from 7 to 9 PM we'll have a free class orientation to lay out the class objectives so that you can see if it works for you. There is a $100 fee per person for the rest of the course, it's $150 for a couple. More details are on the flyer.

01/20/2025

Local beef pairs best with local ingredients!

Bringing a little color into this snowy January is our 100% grassfed chuck eye steak topped with wild mushrooms and Happy Vibes Farm egg and microgreens.

We're missing our vendor friends from Archwood Green Barns Farmer's Market, and market season can't come soon enough.

01/17/2025

Found these in the fridge. These were harvested 4 weeks ago before our last distribution and market of 2024!!!!
They look fresher than grocery store greens.
You see Green sorrel, red vein sorrel, cilantro, microgreens, and mustard greens. Note all the packaging is biodegradable.

Local and fresh food 🥬 stays fresh for very long and doesn’t travel over across the county or over the ocean(s) and doesn’t have loss of nutrients or flavor.

Local food is not cheap, but beats in flavor, freshness and nutrition.

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, and Happy New Year.

12/22/2024

December 22, Last farmers market of this year!

Please find us at Archwood Green Barns Farmer's Market
Between 10 to 2

Still find beautiful and locally grown veggies, greens and micro greens

For last minute gifts, don’t forget our art 🖼️ hanging frames project.

12/21/2024